The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-28
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
som e THINGS THAT AREHAPPEN.
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.
What Has Happened in the Good Old
state Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.


What Has Happened in the Good Old
State Since the Chronicle Last :reet..si
Its Readers.
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ton. Send on the postal cards. EDITOR. |
-. Only 16. convicts are now in the
penitentiary.
=. .Charlotte's street car lines are being
rapidly extended.
....A cotton factory company is to be
organized at Sanford.
| 49, The cotton seed Oil mills at Fayette-
vile are to be enlarged.
There are now 164 convicts on the
Atlanta Il Monroe r. r.
....T There is again talk of a railway
from Durham to Franklinton.
=. .Goldsboro and that section was ia
vored with rain on Thursday last.
-. .Durham's property has increased
5000, 900 IN value in the past year.
=. The Cape Fear River has been SO low
that boats were barely able to run.
| AT high-up Sylvia, Jackson county,
| on the 18th the mercury rose up to %.
! 49,. The grape crop in the Asheville sec
ton has not been at all in ured by rot.
-. Dr. d. w. G. Benbow. of Greens
| boro, harvested $50 bushels of wheat.
-. .Germanton is the new terminus of
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley r. r.
1.-Two convicts in the camp near Mon
! roe, Union county, died of sunstroke last
week.
| 1.-THE State Colored sabbath School
! Convention Was in session at Raleigh last
week.
! 49,. Mrs. Oscar Thompson, of Wayne
| county, makes $500 each year out of silk
! worms.
| IA military compay, the Warren
| Guards, has been organized in Warren
county.
| --- Mr.. 7. I. Oliver, of Pine Level, has
| one OF the finest crops of cotton in tho en-
| tire State.
! -. Bill Grow, a negro who fred into
/ train near Monroe, has been captured and
is III jail.
Col. L. L. Polk is to address the
farmers club at Pikeyiie, Wayne county,
| August 3rd.
-, The annual picnic of the Masons
will be held at Mocksyille, Iredell county,
August II.
49,. Waynesville will have a savings
bank, in handsome style, and business be-
gins in thirty Gays
1.-THE rice crop, as we'll as the peanut
crop, near Wilmington, are reported in
fine condition.
=. Mr.. Brewer was killed near Ore
Hill, Chatham county, last week by
| threshing machine.
All the mountain resorts are report
ed as well filled with guests and the rush
continues.
... Oxford is reported as building up
very rapidly Brick stores are rising in
| the burned district.
| Fine rains are reported On the line
of the Carolina Central +. r. and the crops
are as a rule admirable.
-. The population of Nashville has in
creased 40 per cent. since that place has
had railroad advantages.
Col. David Tanning, the famous
North Carolina Tory, was born in Johnston
county, then part of Wake.
John B. Bason, coorcd of Ala
nance county, was drowned in Haw river
/ last week, While intoxicated.
Forest fires near Fayetteville last
week, started by lightning, destroyed a
great deal OF valuable timber.
IA Montgomery county gold miner
one day last week took S22, 800 in gold to
the Charlotte mint to be assayed.
IA white woman was struck by
lightning and killed in Richmond county,
near Ellerbe Springs, last week.
...T The Annual Conference of the Dur
ham District began at Mt Tabor Metho-
dist church in Granville yesterday.
In August the Fayetteville Indt pen
dent Light Infantry, organized in 1898,
will celebrate it's oath anniversary.
80. .Greensboros new graded school
building is to be constructed by contrac-
tor Thomas Woodroffe, for S11, 100.
-. The crate factory, new enterprise
at Warsaw, is filling large orders, and sup
plies people with home made goods.
49,. An old custom is revived at Fay
ettevile, i'll the publication of the "banns
OF matrimony, in the Baptist church.
-. The sheriffs of the various counties
have appointed delegates to the grangers
!, encampment and farmers institute at Mt
Holly.
-. Sandy Lashmet, white brickma
| son, was IOunO Qeau thursday IN a nelC
at Salem. Liquor was the cause of his
death.
IA severe storm near Fayetteville
last week did much damage to farms, par
ticularly those Of Messrs. J. Evans and O.
| Evans.
-. In three months past the Durham
warehouses have sold three million pounds
of tobacco; more than ever in the same
time.
5 " All the laws of 1887 have been sen
2 to The various counties by the Secretary
of State The book is volume of Us;
g pages.
"A new paper, Charity and Chill
dren,' is published by Mr.. J. H. Mills, a
:, Thomasville, in aid Of the Baptist orphan
< age there.
-. Mr.. John Campbell, of Burlington
Alamance county, was, while asleep, at
, , tackled with an axe by an insane son, an,
> > nearly killed.
e -. .Chauncey Proctor, a desperate, aide'
f by band of thieves, is terrorizing, afte
b a fashion, the people of Burke and Cleave
h land counties.
. Mr.. F. r. Rose, of Fayetteville, viii
y bring suit against the W. ~ w. X. K. TO
e ejecting him and his family from the trail
s at Halifax